Research Projects

SISSDEN: Secure Info Sharing Sensor Delivery Event Network

SISSDEN is an EU H2020-funded project aimed at improving the cybersecurity posture of EU entities and end users through development of
situational awareness and sharing of actionable information. It builds on the experience of Shadowserver, a non-profit
organization well known in the security community for its efforts in mitigation of botnet and malware propagation, free of
charge victim notification services, and close collaboration with LEAs, CERTs, and ISPs.
Our role is to explore sensor technologies for cyber crime threats. Project period: May 2016 - Apr 2019.

RAMSES: Platform for Tracking the Money Flow of Malware

The overall objective of RAMSES is to design and
develop a holistic, intelligent, scalable and modular platform for LEAs to facilitate digital Forensic Investigations. The
system will extract, analyse, link and interpret information extracted from Internet related with financially-motivated malware, with a particular focus on
ransomware and banking Trojans. We use disruptive Big Data technologies to extract patterns of fraudulent behaviour in enormous
amounts of data. Project period: Sep 2016 - Aug 2019.

Anonymous and Censorship-Resistant Communication

Anonymous communication is essential to protect the privacy of users online.
Several
semi-decentralized (like Tor, which uses a central directory) and fully decentralized (like I2P)
anonymous communication networks
have reached an unprecedented degree of maturity and popularity and are used daily by
millions of users worldwide.
This DFG-funded project aims at devising techniques to make anonymous communication networks
censorship-resistant. The project is part of the "Sonderforschungsbereich 1223".
Project period: Jan 2016 to Dec 2020.